Modeling electrical conductivities of nanocomposites with aligned carbon nanotubes

Nanotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 48, 2011, Pages

  Bao, W S ^a,b   Meguid, S A ^a   Zhu, Z H ^b   Meguid, M J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; ALIGNED CNTS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PEAK VALUES; PERCOLATION MODELS; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; RESISTOR NETWORK; SINGLE-WALL; SIZE EFFECTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D);

ALIGNMENT; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOCOMPOSITES; SOLVENTS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOCOMPOSITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 80855133507     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/48/485704     Document Type: Article

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